The Pope vs. Trump

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/opinion/the-pope-vs-trump.html

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To the Editor:

Re “Is the Pope the Anti-Trump?” (Sunday Review, March 5):

Austen Ivereigh’s analysis of the contrast between Pope Francis and Donald Trump is spot on.

It’s incredible that we have in the pope an articulate and compassionate spokesman for all of humanity who has not given up on the whole sorry lot of us. Rather, he can boldly imagine the masses of unemployed youth, garbage pickers and migrant laborers being a vanguard of a “culture of encounter” with the globalizing forces of technology and finance.

Even more amazing is that he applies a Christian “theology of liberation” to the endeavor, thus challenging our widely accepted use of the term “Christian” to indicate pro-life, anti-gay beliefs.

RICHARD W. GILLETT, SEATTLE

The writer is an Episcopal priest.